Archive for the ‘Modern Family’ Category

A fan of the beautiful Modern Family and Vampire Academy actress, Sarah Hyland, is said to have inappropriately groped the star at a party in Sydney, Australia, hosted by Qantas at the Sebel Pier One. She reportedly burst into tears and left the event early.

Following the incident, Hyland tweeted, “Sorry to all the fans outside the #qantas event that I didn’t get to say hi to but I had to leave due to an inappropriate touch of a fan.” Creeper.

Her boyfriend, Matt Prokop, who has joined Hyland in Australia where she is busy filming with Modern Family, also tweeted after the assault, “To the a**hole who assaulted Sarah tonight I hope to God you don’t see next week.”

The misguided fan has been arrested and police are continuing their investigations.

The cast was making $65,000 per episode, and now, following the salary dispute, the cast will earn somewhere around $170,000 – $175,000 per episode! With a season of 22 episodes, that means the cast will earn $3.8 million per season.

Agreeing in principle to their new contracts with producer 20th Century Fox Friday, the actors have also dropped the lawsuit filed July 24 that claimed their current contracts were a violation of a California law that prohibits personal service contracts from exceeding seven years.

As part of the new deal, the actors will add a year to their existing seven-season contracts, despite 20th Century Fox’s request to add two.

“It’s no surprise, but I’m of course thrilled and I cannot wait to get on stage Monday morning and start making the show again,” co-creator Steve Levitan told The Hollywood Reporter.

Added co-creator Christopher Lloyd: “It was a distraction more than anything. And I think the cast feels the same way. It was never arduous. Now other people can go on with the numbers and we’ll go on with the letters.”

What do you think about their raise? Do you think the cast deserves it? I tend to think the cast typically DOES deserve the money. You know the network can afford it, and the actors are the ones making the show successful. Something tells me before the show is done – they’ll get more raises!

He’s mostly known for his roles in action flicks (X-Men) and romances (The Notebook). So what’s Marsden doing on ABC’s Modern Family? “James is hilarious,” series star Jesse Tyler Ferguson (pictured lying down) says of the actor, who appears in an episode early next year as a reiki practitioner who moves in next door to Mitchell (Ferguson) and Cam (Eric Stonestreet). “Believe me, he would not have been in Mitchell and Cam’s hot tub if he wasn’t funny — okay, funny and hot.”